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NEW YORK (AP) — It should be a piece of cake. Customer comes in, asks for a cake with a specific design or for a particular event, baker makes it, everyone's happy. But sometimes customers and bakers have clashed over what goes on the cake, or whether to make it at all. An Oregon bakery was fined $135,000 for refusing ...

The threat of a strike starting Sunday by nearly 40,000 Verizon workers in nine states, including Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware, remained acute Saturday as a settlement remained elusive between the telecom giant and two of its unions.

PATERSON, N.J. (AP) — A northern New Jersey man has pleaded guilty to aggravated manslaughter for beating his friend to death with a metal dumbbell. The Record (http://bit.ly/1KEKN0P) reports that 35-year-old Esteban Castillo, of Paterson, faces up to 15 years in state prison when he’s sentenced Oct. 2. Castillo said he hit 30-year-old William Vasconello […]

ATLANTIC CITY - His day job is spokesman for the New Jersey Casino Control Commission, an agency that, as you may have heard, has four fewer casinos to control than it used to. But Dan Heneghan, 62, has an alter ego: Mr. Lighthouse. For nearly three years